The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1953, Page 4

- Page & lisher, from Citizen Building. corner of Onty Daily Newspeper in Key West end Monroe County P. ARTMAN COME ON, KEY WESTERS, IT’S UP-TO YOU TO RAISE OUR PERCENTAGE Thousands of Key Westers, who have not contrib- uted to our Community Chest Fund, should be reminded of the prompt and beneficial work that has been done here by the Red Cross-and other charitable organizations that derived much,of their money from the Chest Fund. The Red Cross has even replaced boats that fishermen lost here during storms, besides helping the needy in many other ways. But the Red Cross is only one of other charitable organizations that help to relieve distress, day in and day out, throughout the year. It makes no difference how great prosperity is now, or has been at any other time, there are always unfortunate people in every community in need of financial or other aid. This noble work in helping others, unable to help themselves, will be cur- tailed the’ coming year if Key Westers don’t contribute more generally to the Community Chest Fund. Too many depend on too few to give, so much so that the term “Community” is a misnomer. . Navy men here have done their part nobly in almost' meeting the quota that was set for them. Ninety-five per cent of Navy officers and enlisted men stationed here have contributed, whereas contributions by Key West- ers fall below 26 per cent. Have you given, Mr: or Mrs. Key Wester? If you The Key West Citizen | Cf Oe e By CHARLES MERCER | NEW YORK, Dec. 19 —‘Sure, iT’ go.” Thus, every night of the year,! thousands of teenige girls leave! home to sjt with young children, whose parents hanker for an eve- ning on tie town. And thus, on the night of last Oct. 24, did pretty Evelyn Hartley, | 15, the daughter of a Wisconsin State College professor in La} Crosse, leave home to sit with the| baby of one of her father’s col- leagues. Evelyn went willingly, for Prof. and Mrs. Viggo Rasmusen were friends of her parents, Dr. and) Mrs. Richard Hartley, and she was glad to fill in when the regu- |lar Rasmusen baby sitter failed to appear. Early in the evening her father \ealled the Rasmusen home to talk with her. There was no answer. Alarmed, he hurried there and saw with horror a house splattered HOW LONG IS A POOR GIRL SUPPOSED TO WAIT? : » | Big Another Grane r 4 werd Chapter 23 through the room, mak Martin ont was for er, who alone knew was ing to the apartment; he had left Dexter in bed. still weak from yeste-day’s ordeal, and had been faintly worried about him ever since. But the caller said, “Marty? | This is Joe. I ain't forgot what ju wrote about me on New ‘ear’s and now I want to do you a favor.” | A moment’s mental groping identified the caller as Joe Lark, the Gold Mine Club’s doorman. Last New Year’s Eve some of the more expansive ts of the es- tablishment had insisted upon bringing Joe inside and treating dim as a guest ot honor, and Mar- tin had immortalized the incident for a day in the Morning Record. He asked, “How did you know where to find me?” “It's where you live, ain't it? It’s in the phone book. Where else would I find you?” “Tve been away, that’s all. “What's the favor, Joe?” “I heard you lost your job. Well, you could get it back you got a front-page scoop about who's been doing all the killing around town lately, couldn’t you?” Martin's hand tightened on the phone. “I guess I could.” “Well, I been adding things up, who left the Gold Mine right after Searle got the bounce and wh:t they said and what ways they went, Al! at once it hit me a ton of bricks that ump. His first thought} By DON CAMERON “No, but nobody ever jlong will ‘ou be? | “Twenty minutes.” | Martin wondered whet! feall mi be a par jdevious plar of Mo }seemed unlikely jmerely a superannuated handy- |man, somewhat over-fond h- quor, ttle to recommend him for e unexacting du- ties of a doorman except a gaunt, elongated {frame on which a gold. braided uniform could be dis- jplayed to advantage. If Morrissey { y a trap for Martin— vhic! the reporter —he had more depend- ng purpose of his call were not just to inveigle Martin into buying some drinks—prob- ably it wauld amount to no more than a vafhe suspicion. And yet it was possible that the fellow had hit on the one essentia: clue which all the rest of them had missed, and could end with a word this nightmare of mounting tension and indecision. E’ went outside and hailed a taxi, eaving the ghosts to their own devices among what- ever humanly undetectable vibra- tions might pulse in the apart- driver and leaned back in the warm sunlight that poured through the glass top of the cab. There was no tavern of any de- scription to be seen in the imme- ee oan E telephone hrilling | bafToom so well I couldn't find it. . ee ne| “TH be watehing for you. How Joe Lark was call. had anything to tell—if ment. He gave directions to the] ; Wisdom Is Needed In Choosing Baby Sitters every instance of crime of ‘tragic carelessness. i jan hour. For New York parents | In some places baby sitting has | the cost sometimes runs to $1.50) become a profitable business. lay veep an: thine. aia: aed | 5 a s A Seattle om, %, has par and young children there will be! layed an $800 investment into a!naby’ sitters. Surveys show that! $180,000-a-year business in six the likelihood of accident or trag- years. With the aid of his wife, edy is greatly lessened if the par-| Frank James recruited 200 sitters,/ents use intelligence in selecting | most of them middle-aged, who!a sitter. now average from $35 to $50 a| This is borne out by the lack of | week working for the Jameses. The |tragic baby sitting incidents in the couple has a headquarters at home|st. Louis area, which has felt the | with a 20-line switchboard and a good effects of an intelligent pro- card index of some 15,000 regular| gram carried out by the Missouri | customers. |State Employment Service. | The majority of American par-| So far as can be learned, it was ents, however, depend on someone the first baby sitting program of in the neighborhood—more often/its kind introduced by a public a girl of high school age than anjagency in the nation. Thousands older person—to baby sit while|of jobs have been handled by the | they go out. Fees in most commu-|agency’s pool of some 180 sitters | nities range from 50 to 75 cents|and not a single mishap has been an hour. In some rural areas sit-|reported. ters charge as little as 35 cents} p diate vicinity of Pear! Street and Maiden Lane. As the cab de- to|Parted, Martin strolled beneath the elevated tracks, which made criss-cross patterns of shadows on the paversent and along the grimy fronts of warehouses and plumb- ing and gen gg se og = was hardly any traffic; a thundered Svertiead toward South maybe I had the answer.” “Here's ing. What “You vant say Morrie? He pays me for keeping my by og open and my mouth shut, and he wouldn’t appreciate me monkeying in what’s none of my ‘iness.” “Okay. But I want to uu the dope personal. This public hone and I can’t say too much. it?” yusi 5 “My lips are zippered.” tered across the next corner, and a’ sedan came down the street slowly behind Martin. He turne irritably after he had walked a quarter of a block, tell- ing himselh that Joe, not he, must have got the directions mixed. He en can we get together before I have to go to vork?” “What's the matter with now?” “Swell. Do you know the Tops’! Tavern on Pearl Street around the corner from Maiden Lane?” Hal Boyle Says | NEW YOKK (#—-Those Yong! The Truants—Arthur Godfrey. winter evening commercials on| The Caine Mutiny—Julius La} television have revived the lost!Rosa. art of reading. A Pail of Oysters—Milton Berle, Ferry, a horse-drawn cart clat- 3 faced the sedan just as it slid to the curb and the door opened and a man got out The man was thin j and of medium height, with a pale, wedge-shaped face, wearing a brown slouch hat and a brown »| topcoat. In one gloved hand he held a revolver which he pointed at Martin. “Get in the back seat, King.” the man said Those vibrations Martin bad failed to find in the apartment were concentrated in his spine all at once, extending up into back of his brain, buzzing in a way that should have been audi- ble to anyone within a yards. They had a numbing vache prmggers | which his seemed to like ting. “King?” he repeat “You ve got me confused with else, mister.” The man’s gun hand did not waver. “You'll do,” he said. “Get in unless you want us to put you in” Martin got in, bending nearly double in the opera’ thin one, own is in my hip get it without a.” The car Have Surplus Of Gift Days By WEBB McKINLEY ROME #—Italian children ge Christmas presents more often probably, than children anywhere else in the world. are able to give and have not given, it is hard to see how|*i blood and disarrayed by In many parts of the country, you can keep your conscience clear. The Citizen has|« Sealer been informed that some residents have said they have not given because nobody has come to them to collect. That excuse is a flimsy one now. Jerry Trevor, of The Florida National Bank at Key West, has arranged for contributions to be left at the No. 1 window in the bank. You may leave it there on any banking day be-| tween now and Christmas Eve, to which day the closing of the drive has been extended in the hope that the re- sponse from Key Westers who have not given will swell their percentage to at least twice its present puny size. Come on, Key Westers, let’s not feel “cheap.” You are not asked to give a large amount. Contribute as/ much as you feel you can spare. You won't miss the money, whatever the amount you can spare, and you may be sure your conscience will feel better in knowing you| are helping people who can’t help themselves, The churches render service to all individuals who! are willing to be served. St ene ISITIAIBIL IE BECIAINIDIL TE) CIAIRIEIE IR MAIR! LISIEIN| AIPRES/TIRI | IVIEISHBAIT) IRIE|S MRS | 1 (VIE) ICIRIAIM! iE ISITIEIR| LL INIA! O MIE IRI OIRIE|SIS} Al! Ri DIY] DIOIGIE|S! CIEISMESIE|L BENIE/ATT| UTISMBOILIL AIS MES/TIY| TIAMBOIRI UF] T (CIE ME tL EIVIEINTTISMERIAIP! | NIE} IRIEICIEISISMESIT It INiGiS} Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 2. Open court 3. Asiatic country 4 Journal 8 Engage ina competitior 10. Part of a shoc 11. Boys 16. Attendance 20. Those who exact retri aa@d aaa wae nine 38. Passageway 39. Compart- fluids #6. Card with 49. Affirmative vote president) | terrific struggle. j;musen baby was sleeping peace- jfully. But there was ho sign of | Evelyn. Since then police have found in scattered places the girl’s under- wear, a pair of bloodstained trou- sers, and finally the sneakers worn by her abductor when he crept into the house through a cellar | window, | But no one has found a trace} jof Evelyn Hartley. An Associated Press survey re- calls this recent variety of baby- sitting experiences: A if-year-old former carnival strip-teaser kidnaped a 5-months- jold boy with whom she was “sit jting” in Evansville, ind., and took him to her father’s Oklahoma farm. The child was recovered unharmed and the girl charged with kidnaping, A half dozen teenage baby sit- ters at various places rescued their young charges from flaming homes. There was no instance re- ported of a baby sitter leaving children to burn, In Los Angeles, a baby sitter died of advanced tuberculosis. So far none of the 71 children with whom she sat during the year be- fore her death has been found to be infected. In Dallas, a 35-year-old father picked up a 12-year-old Negro girl who was supposed to sit with: his |baby, took her to a tourist. court) jand raped her. } A few days later in Dallas a 4} year-old boy’ was killed when he! fell from a car driven by the woman who was caring for him while his mother worked. | A Maryland woman was convict-! jed of manslaughter and another in-| jdicted on the same charge in the jdeaths of infants left in their care. Police said the children had been, struck on the head, The women contended the children had fallen. Looking back a little farther you find such bizarre baby sitting events as these: | A middle-aged Houston woman who strangled the baby she was caring for beeause “he wouldn't stop crying.” A 13-year-old girl who with two girl friends robbed the home of a Nahant, Mass., physician of $20,- 000 in cash and jewelry while she! was baby sitting. The girls fled to New York and spent their mon- ey in a riot of pleasure before they were captured. The physician committed suicide a few weeks} later. Tragedy and courage, comedy and carelessness—there is no end| to the stories of baby-sitting, the social phenomenon of our time. | In reality, .of course, hundreds of thousands safely carry out their missions of caring for the kids for PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes ers, but the editor reserves are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. HAPPY NEW YEAR Editor, The Citizen: According to my notations, the subscription to your | excellent paper has expired as of November 28 last. In view of the fact that we enjoy the paper, like the town, its people and their h have our subscription extended again for the coming| So, if you want to do your friend year, for which check is attached for $15.60. Three cheers for the New Year are enclosed—one for the city and its very admirable Mayor Harvey, one for The Citizen and a final big one for the fishing pier. There is no better timé to pick] Kiss Me Again, Stranger——for| presents are exchanged three a reunion with the printed word) than during those cheery inter-| ludes on your video screen during! which the announcer tells you how, you can avoid body odor and pro-! tect your lungs by drinking only! filtered beer, packed in a king-) size refrigerator that can be! thrown away after using only once. | “During one long eommercial I| read my way through three feet; of Dr. Eliot's old five-foot book! shelf,” a man bragged recently. “My wife, who has read all our |books, knitted a sweater during |another commercial.” ions of the views of its read- right to delete any items which 200 words and write on one side opes and prayers, we wish to a real favor this christmas, why) not refresh his ears by giving him! ja heart-warming, old-fashioned present—a book? If he has for- gotten how to read, surprise him! up a good book and settle back for|Penelope, the Bronx Zoo's old) maid platypus. A Mingled Yarn—Quentin Rey-| nolds, What Can a Man Believe?— publisher, Bennett Cerf. The Age of Suspicion—Marlene Dietrich. Time Gardner, Ways Bankhead. Until Victory—Adlai Stevenson. The Future of Architecture— Betty Grable. Meet’ Me at The Morgue—Pre- mier Malenkov. And Time Again—Ava of Mammals—Tallulah Sons for My Supper—Guy Lom-! bardo. Pocket Guide to the Birds—your} favorite politician. | What Time Is it, World?—Win- ston Churchill. Live Them Agaip—Bernard Ba- Sincerely, A. J. GILLESPIE. 430 Glen Park Drive, Bay Village, Ohio. “GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN” Editor, The Citizen: Perhaps you have already heard too much on the! subject of prostitution, but for weeks as I have read and heard discussed this subject pro and con I have had an uncontrollable urge to voice my views garnered from the|,, “Book of Books.” As a child I began to wonder about sex as most chil-/family next door. dren do. I remember reading the Bible one day to TY | tam: mother, and coming across the word “begat.” meant. She turned sheepishly to my father and then! said, “Never mind, just read on.” } There was a lost opportunity to set a questioning) mind on the road to a right conception of so vital a sub-| ject. which can make or distort it. As I grew to womanhood! I was still perplexed about this taboo subject which men|* and women are still carrying on, in and out of marriage. Bill Dean of Korea, I did get the impression that somehow marriage seemed @ Salute. to make it permissible. Then, after marriage, babies moved into the picture, but doctors, satchels and storks worked the miracle. God was not in the picture at all.! It was not until I began to try to teach Sunday School that so many of the answers to all of our questions, frustra- tions and fears were answered. Why: had not someone pointed out the very first chapter in the Bible to me— the creation story? There it tells us that God created j everything, then He ‘blessed it and said to it, “Multiply| and replenish the earth.” Man was no exception to that) law. And sex was His method. s Why did not someone say to mé that-as long as it) was carried on in the Holy bonds of matrimony that! it can be a beautiful relationship between a man and his, with a color picture book. jtuch, choice, here is our annual list*of Christmas book suggestions—just| in jest—for folks in and out of the public eye: Marilyn Monroe. S. Truman. |All The Time—President Ike. igen Joe McCarthy. Realizing For More Than Bread—to your it was a strange word to me, I asked my mother what it/favorite employer, the boss. |boss’s assistant. Lockhart. One that-moves in the very center of our lives, | sinatra. To guide you in making the right The Enchanted Cup—your fa-| |vorite bartender, Lord Vanity—many wives are {buying this for their husbands, al-| How To Make Doll Clothes—|ush I don't know why. Others Talk. The Heart of the Family—your | wife. A Law for the Lion”—ditto, | Flying Saucers From Outer Space—to‘a butter-fingered waiter. By the Dawn’s Ugly Light—fine The Boy Who Saw Tomorrow—|for throwing at alarm clocks. ice President Nixon. Life Is Worth Living and The Our Animal Neighbors—to the ' power of Positive Thinking—buy | ’em for yourself, and give your) jown mind some fresh air and ex-| ercise, All Done From Memory—Harry How To Play Your Best Golf A Practical Guide To Job Hunt- Borrowers—to ily next door. the other You Must Relax—ditto. ‘HEAVY BORROWING Brother To The Dragons—the WASHINGTON #—Farmers and stockmen, most of them in drought! Some Enchanted Evenings—June areas, have borrowed more than} I Reached For a Star—Frank/ers Home Administration since| jJuly 1, Secretary of Agriculture Notes Without Music—Johnny |Benson said today. ay. : So Noble a Captain—Maj. Gen.' Only about 12 pounds of usable Presented with spectacle lenses are produced from 2 600-pound melt of glass. . | mate? That under this setup it is right and honorable! and a blessing to man. | But man in his sinful state has made it an ugly and, sinful thing—hence prostitution—with diseased bodies and ruined lives as its price. You can hold all your de- cency committee meetings, which is commendable, but you will never clear up this deplorable situation until the individual comes back to God’s original plan for which| he was created—to glorify God and to multiply and re- plenish the earth, in the holy bonds of matrimony, your efforts will have been in vain. Sincerely MRS. ROY H. ALDERMAN prefer The Man Who Woulagtt 86 million dollars from the Farm-' broker: times—on St. Nicholas Day, Dec. 6; on Christmas Day, Dee, 25; and on the Day of Epiphany, Jan, 6. Even so, most Italian children won't get as many gifts as their counterparts in other Christian na- tions. For Italy has more than its share of poverty these days. St. Nicholas Day is especially ‘important in the Adriatic. port city of Bari. People sometimes say it’s the home town of Santa Claus. Bari doesn’t look much like the North Pole, but there’s a certain laccuracy to the idea, The bones of St, Nicholas him- self are there. They were brought |to Bari many centuries ago from |Asia Minor and lie today in a rer whens close to the sea. St, Nicholas is a saint especially of children, and along the Adriatic and in many other countries of Eu- rope his day is a children’s holi- day with Christmas trees, toy fairs, gifts and ye Presents are ex on Christ mas Day in honor of the birth Christ, as in all other Christian es Day of Befana. Befana is but a kindly one, and it that she leaves presents trees for children when her the iF gs comes once 4 year. When it’s all over and come in, the fathers may some use for bo Patron saint children too. For St. Nicholas also the patron saint of pawm 's. al Vic Vet says pore ee een meme enema en oon